Luke bet his mum Jay £10 he could read and review all the books in the Independent's list of 50 books for Y7 kids by Christmas. This is the blog of his progress

Monday, 30 January 2012

Swallows and Amazons

I cannot say
with all honesty that I was looking forward to reading this book. It was big,
it was in that time where everyone is perfectly delightful and worst of all it
had that thing where instead of writing tomorrow like a normal person they
write to-morrow with doesn't make any SENSE! But as it turns out it wasn’t that
bad.

How were the characters? OK. How was the storyline? OK. How was the
ending? OK.

If someone asked me “Hey Luke can you sum up the quality of
swallows and amazons in one word?” I would reply “Eh” The book overflows with
mediocrity. Nothing is noticeably horrible yet nothing makes me fill with
happiness or burst out laughing.

This is the kind of book that you read when
you just got nothing better to do. I hope that in future this book will mean
more to me but for now it will just sit on my shelf until I lie on the floor
groaning with boredom. 50/100.